Evaluating the chief school administrator's performance is one of the most important responsibilities of a board of education. In New Jersey, established guidelines for board evaluations of superintendents range from legal to procedural in the attempt to meet school district goals and objectives and to assess whether the superintendency fulfilled…

A reference guide to laws, rules, and regulations that govern medical practice in the State of New York is presented. In addition to identifying licensing requirements/procedures for physicians, general provisions of Title VIII of the Education Law are covered along with state management, professional misconduct, and authorized acts. Regulations…

This guide is designed to assist local educational agencies in the design, development, implementation, operation, and administration of vocational-technical education programs in Michigan. All aspects of this document are designed to concur with the Michigan State Plan for Vocational Education as well as the Michigan School Code and subsequent…

A practicum to determine the need for a sexual harassment policy and to develop an appropriate policy for Sheldon Jackson College, Alaska, is described. The objective of the practicum was to determine the impact of equal opportunity legislation, specifically as it relates to sexual harassment of students, on the private college campus. The…

Eleven mathematics objectives for seventh grade students to attain are listed. After general specifications for test items and the format for the test package are noted, specifications for assessing each objective are given, with enabling skills, a description of test questions, a description of answer choices, and examples of test questions for…

Under the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (P. L. 96-272), Congress outlined a case review system intended to assure that child welfare agencies deal directly with various aspects of child placement. The second of four volumes, this document presents case study descriptions of the hearings within the context of the case review…

Prepared to assist the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges in their review of the recommendations in the Education Code Review, this report presents information on the evolution of the review project, including a specific discussion of the remaining processes for review and modification, and a summary of the major issues and…

This document includes a case summary and the Supreme Court Justices' opinions on Crawford vs Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles. The Crawford case concerned the constitutionality of Proposition 1, a State constitutional amendment ratified by California voters to stop mandatory pupil reassignment and busing within the Los Angeles…

Major changes affecting New York City's homeless poor in the past 15 months are assessed in this follow-up study to a research project which a year earlier had examined the problems of homeless adults in the city and had made recommendations to deal with these problems. Data were collected through informal interviews, surveys, and observations.…

Without changes in Michigan's unemployment insurance law, the state's unemployment insurance debt will probably reach $3.8 billion by the end of 1985. Currently, Michigan's employers pay unemployment insurance tax rates that vary from 1 to 9 percent, depending upon the amount of benefits charged against their accounts. Beginning with the federal…

Clarifying guidelines are presented for use by California community college districts in interpreting Title 5 of the California Administrative Code, which requires the adoption of employee affirmative action plans, including goals and timetables to increase the number of ethnic minorities and women in district employment. Following material on the…

While the law governing the definition of educational adequacy is still evolving, partial definitions can be gleaned from various state and federal laws and regulations prescribing standards for schools and from judicial interpretations of constitutional and statutory provisions. This document presents the results of such an analysis. After…

The manual presents Utah's rules and regulations for education programs serving handicapped students. Regulations touch upon the following topics (sample subtopics in parentheses): responsibilities of the State Office of Education (authority to make policy); child identification (child find and screening, referral, evaluation/classification…

Results are presented of the Connecticut Statewide Basic Skills Proficiency Test, which was administered to Connecticut ninth graders for the fourth time in 1983. The history of the test is summarized; it was designed to identify students who are performing so far below grade level that they require remedial instruction to succeed in the ninth…

A committee was appointed by the American Electronics Association (AEA) to: (1) study the problem of shortage of engineers, especially computer and electrical engineers; (2) determine the degree of shortage; and (3) recommend how AEA could effectively address the problem. The committee's findings are provided in this three-section report. Section…